 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 halaman
...forfeited to pious uses; why should there not as well be doedands for reputation.— JUaneU. DCCCCLXII. Although the devil be the father of Lies, he seems,...the continual improvements that have been. made upon him.—Swift. DCCCCLXIII. I lov'd thee once, I'll love no more; Thine be the grief as is the blame;... | |
 | 1857 - 830 halaman
...LIES DEFiNED.-Jt was Swift, we believe, who remarked that although the devil be the father of liesj he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost...continual improvements that have been made upon him. One of these improvement* is termed " white liea "—a species of eel-like reptile, which sometimes... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 halaman
...in Bondstreet, differ from these only as Gorgonius differed from Eufillus. — Sydney Smith. LYING. Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems,...continual improvements that have been made upon him. — Swift. THE HEALTHY MAN. Of all the know-nothing persons in this world, commend us to the man who... | |
 | 1852 - 424 halaman
...there is a sneer in Swift, which may have suggested the above mentioned caricature. The Dean says : " Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems...much of his reputation by the continual improvements which have been made upon him!" NEGRO MELODIES are very much in vogue still — but we cannot understand... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 halaman
...in Bondstreet, differ from these only as Gorgonius differed from Eunllus. — Sydney Smith. LYING. Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems,...continual improvements that have been made upon him. — Swift. f THE HEALTHY MAN. Of all the know-nothing persons in this world, commend us to the man... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 halaman
...— you make them exert industry, whereas, by giving it, you keep them idle. — Johnson. LYING. — Although the devil be, the father of lies, he seems,...continual improvements that have been made upon him. — Swift. LYING. — It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there... | |
 | 1864 - 876 halaman
...was "a story of real life;" that he had spoken what he knew and testified what he had seen. LYING, ALTHOUGH the devil be the father of lies, he seems,...continual improvements that have been made upon him. THE LADIES' EEPOSITORY. EOMAHOE, RY BEV. TM G К 1 Г Г I Т П . SPHERE is a region of romance and... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 halaman
...my crown Wad be my queen, wad bo my queen. BURNS. LIES. ALTHOUGH the devil be the father of lies, ho seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much...continual improvements that have been made upon him. SWIFT. HE who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1873 - 406 halaman
...pieces, the wild bulls tossed them upon cGa. Ш. 26; He. 11.11; 1 Jo. v. 3. Although the devil be tho father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors,...continual improvements that have been made upon him." — Sirift. d Dr. Tlioinas. e С. H. Spurgeon. "The rock 'of salvation is solidity itself; it cannot... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 412 halaman
...of the deception on herself o De. xxvii. 18. * PS. TXÍV. 4, C; V. 6; Je. xlviii. 10; lTh.v. 22. " Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems,...continual improvements that have been made upon him." — Saift. " Craftiness is a quality in the mind, and a vice in the character." — Sania!~Dubuy. с... | |
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But although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation, by the continual improvements that have been made upon him. 
